US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank January 31, …

The Palestinian Authority (PA) prioritizes its payments to terrorists, and has therefore lost more than 6.96 billion shekels (over $1.88 billion) in the last 5 years alone, according to its own data.

The official PA news agency, WAFA, criticized Israel for causing the PA’s financial crises largely by deducting money that the PA uses for terror payments. However, a look at the PA’s numbers shows that the PA itself is responsible for its crises.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    You’re just straight up defending Settler Colonialism. Do you know what settlements are? Or how the Apartheid Regime works? Not only are you denying Human Rights Watch; you just used rhetoric to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and blame them for it

    State violence – official and otherwise – is part and parcel of Israel’s apartheid regime, which aims to create a Jewish-only space between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The regime treats land as a resource designed to serve the Jewish public, and accordingly uses it almost exclusively to develop and expand existing Jewish residential communities and to build new ones. At the same time, the regime fragments Palestinian space, dispossesses Palestinians of their land and relegates them to living in small, over-populated enclaves.

    The apartheid regime is based on organized, systemic violence against Palestinians, which is carried out by numerous agents: the government, the military, the Civil Administration, the Supreme Court, the Israel Police, the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and others. Settlers are another item on this list, and the state incorporates their violence into its own official acts of violence. Settler violence sometimes precedes instances of official violence by Israeli authorities, and at other times is incorporated into them. Like state violence, settler violence is organized, institutionalized, well-equipped and implemented in order to achieve a defined strategic goal.

    The combination of state violence and nominally unofficial violence allows Israel to have it both ways: maintain plausible deniability and blame the violence on settlers rather than on the military, the courts or the Civil Administration while advancing Palestinian dispossession. The facts, however, blow plausible deniability out of the water: When the violence occurs with permission and assistance from the Israeli authorities and under its auspices, it is state violence. The settlers are not defying the state; they are doing its bidding.

    • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
      21·
      18 days ago

      You’re just straight up defending Settler Colonialism.

      I’m doing the opposite. The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

      As long as we in the West continue to invest massive dollars into Gaza and just accept that they use it to find their war machine, were perpetuating the settlement situation in the West Bank.

      We can deny patterns in human behavior as long as we want to. But Israel’s body politic will never accept a two state solution while their two state solution experiment has a hundred hostages and openly says they want to bomb, attack and rape them again. Stop being a child.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        Maybe you don’t recognize it, but that’s exactly what your rhetoric is doing and the point of the misinformation baked into your arguments.

        Israel is the one that was founded on ethnic cleansing, used the peace process to expand it’s settlements, and is currently engaged in genocide. Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution

        Oslo Accord Sources: MEE, NYT, Haaretz, AJ

        Transfer Committee and the JNF led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate. ,

        The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.

        • Avi Shlaim

        How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution

        ‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe

        One State Solution, Foreign Affairs

        • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
          21·
          18 days ago

          The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

          Did you comprehend this section? There’s a faction in Israel that is pro 2 state solution. Unless that faction takes power, Israel will never roll back it’s West Bank Settlements. Since that faction is responsible for the pullout in Gaza, the Israeli body-politic is not going to vote them into power until the Gaza Strip is peaceful.

          The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other.

          The faction that was against that in Israel implemented the Gaza pullout. You’re right it is one of the other. Advocating for Gazan violence is defacto advocating for settlements.

          • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            18 days ago

            Sorry, but your understanding of the history of Palestine is revisionist. I already provided sources that debunk what you’re saying. If you don’t want to engage with those sources, then please read up on the subject by Historians that have a much deeper understanding than either of us.

            The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha

            A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe

            The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe

            The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe

            The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi

            The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim

            The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy